Former RAF Chivenor

In the sixties and seventies the fire practice dump was on the south (River Taw ) side, towards the eastern end. Over the years they got through at least two Hunters, a Meteor F8, a Javelin, a Skeeter(!) , another Hunter F.4 from the ATC Sqn at Devizes, and a Canberra B(I)8. The wreck of Hunter F.6 XF420 was dumped near the old station pig farm on the western boundary prior to closure of the airfield to fixed wing ops in 1974.

In Chivenor’s second period of activity, from 1980, the dump was further to the west, not far from the old firing butts, and I don’t believe that any burning took place, just Battle Damage Repair patching. They used a Hunter T.7 fuselage, a Canberra TT.18, and the aforementioned Jet Provost. There was also a Canberra nose section near some old pillboxes at the western end for a while.

Hope this helps.

Maybe, if you were a member of the UK Urban Explorers!:diablo:

Touche

😀

In any event I’m hardly going to go looking round an active Royal Marines base am I?

Maybe, if you were a member of the UK Urban Explorers!:diablo:

Whether there is anything left does not concern me. I am not scavenging for parts or anything.

I merely wanted to know where it was.

In any event I’m hardly going to go looking round an active Royal Marines base am I?

Trust me… there’s nothing left. I had the last thing off the dump (a JayPee)

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Why….?

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Because I’m a nosy ******

Seriously, I used to go there as a kid to watch the Hawks, and was just curious. After visiting airstrips/fields, I get on Googleearth/flashearth to see what I was near/what I missed

Steve

Why….?

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here

hope this helps 🙂

You should be on the right lines then, I was part of a group that was allowed to recover part of a Hunter wing pylon from there back in the 1970s.

The location we think it is, is on that side of the airfield

Steve

I believe that it was down towards the Braunton Burrows [Sands] area, but I’m not sure where that is on the flashearth link!

That would be my guess as well, but was hoping someone on here had been based there at some point.

would have though that this is a probable location?

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=51.091461&lon=-4.16031&z=18&r=0&src=msl

not that i know lol